واپور
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian vapore (“steamship”).
Noun[edit]
واپور • (vapor, vapur) (definite accusative واپوری (vaporu, vapuru))
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: vapur, bapur, bafur, bapır, babır, papur, papor
- → Armenian: վափոր (vapʻor), վափուր (vapʻur), պաֆոռ (pafoṙ), փաֆոռ (pʻafoṙ)
- → Georgian: ვაფორი (vapori) — Chveneburi
- → Laz: ვაფური (vapuri), ვაფოჲი (vapoyi)
- → Northern Kurdish: vapûr, wapor, papor
- → South Levantine Arabic: بابور (bābōr, “ship”)
References[edit]
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “վափօր”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 145
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “vapor”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 355
- Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841) “վափօր”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary][1], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 871b
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “واپور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2120